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A giant bluefin tuna sells at a Japanese auction for…
Authorities say two people have been critically injured…
Pilot tells of near miss with UFO
A pilot has told how his passenger jet came with feet of being hit by a UFO while flying at 34,000 feet over the Berkshire…
Man live tweets apartment fire escape
A New York City father began posting harrowing tweets online revealing how his high rise apartment building was burning…
US beset by dangerous, extreme cold
Roads are freezing over across the US Midwest as residents brace for a three-day polar blast so cold it could make hypothermia…
Cataclysmic eruption risk greater than previously thought
The risk of a supervolcano eruption powerful enough to wipe out civilisation as we know it is far greater than previously…
World
Utah gun maker turns down $15M deal with Pakistan
WEST VALLEY CITY, Utah (AP) A Utah-based gun manufacturer has turned down a $15 million deal to supply Pakistan with precision…
Colorado sheriff's dispatcher: 1 person killed and 2 injured, 1 severely, in Aspen plane crash
ASPEN, Colorado (AP) Colorado sheriff's dispatcher: 1 person killed and 2 injured, 1 severely, in Aspen plane crash.
1 killed, 2 injured in Colorado plane crash
DENVER (AP) A fiery plane crash at the Aspen airport Sunday afternoon killed one person and injured two others, one severely…
A plane has crashed at the Aspen, Colorado, airport, a Pitkin County sheriff's dispatcher says
ASPEN, Colo. (AP) A plane has crashed at the Aspen, Colorado, airport, a Pitkin County sheriff's dispatcher says.
Man arrested in 2010 German tourist shooting in SF
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) Authorities have arrested a seventh suspect wanted in the killing of a German tourist near San Francisco's…
Kidnapped Turkish journalist freed in Syria
A NKARA, Turkey (AP) Turkey's state-run news agency says a Turkish photographer who had been kidnapped in Syria has been…
Puerto Rico man charged in slaying of Ohio tourist
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) Authorities in Puerto Rico have charged a man suspected in the slaying of a tourist from Ohio. Homicide…
China set to cash in on pot boom
As legalisation of marijuana spreads, Chinese companies have the patents ready to exploit new markets.
Egyptian fisherman killed by Tunisia coast guard
TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) Authorities say the Tunisian coast guard fired on three Egyptian fishing boats intercepted in Tunisia's…
Iraq officials: 22 soldiers, 12 civilians killed in Anbar province fighting Sunday, 58 wounded
BAGHDAD (AP) Iraq officials: 22 soldiers, 12 civilians killed in Anbar province fighting Sunday, 58 wounded.
Disney's 'Frozen' freezes out 'Paranormal' spinoff
NEW YORK (AP) On a wintry weekend, Disney's "Frozen" retook the box-office top spot with $20.7 million, freezing out the…
Palestinians: Weapons found in Prague were legal
RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) A senior Palestinian diplomat is denying that weapons discovered at the Palestinian Embassy complex…
Italian politician Bersani has brain hemorrhage
ROME (AP) Doctors say Pier Luigi Bersani, a longtime Italian center-left leader who tried but failed to form a government…
TV host's apology to Romney over joke
Mitt Romney says he has accepted an apology from an MSNBC host who joked about a Christmas picture that included his adopted…
Selling social media clicks becomes big business
SAN JOSE, California (AP) Celebrities, businesses and even the U.S. State Department have bought bogus Facebook likes…
Senegal seizes Russian fishing trawler, 80 crew
DAKAR, Senegal (AP) Senegal's armed forces say marines have seized a Russian boat caught fishing illegally off the coast…
Police charge 2 suspects in lottery scam probe
KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) Police in Jamaica have charged two young men with alleged involvement in the Caribbean country's…
Wave of wearable gadgets expected at CES event
LAS VEGAS (AP) Will 2014 be remembered as the year wearable computing took off? Upstart entrepreneurs and major manufacturers…
Israeli court wrests holding company from tycoon
JERUSALEM (AP) An Israeli court has wrested control of the country's largest holding company from one of its most prominent…
Media's migrant 'flood' turns into single drop
World Archives
The British media had warned of a flood of new Bulgarian and Romanian migrants arriving on January 1…
International Politics
Controversial shark policy comes under fire at rallies
"Cull pollies not sharks" urged one of the placards waved by the thousands of protesters who rallied at the weekend.
Syria
Body of British doctor flown back to UK
The body of a British doctor who mysteriously died in a Syrian jail has been flown back to London, Heathrow Airport says…
Middle East
Five Doctors Without Borders staffers seized in Syria
Five staffers of the international aid organization Doctors Without Borders have been taken in for questioning in northern…
Europe
Divorce without judges? France mulls breakup plan
France is considering a plan to allow divorces by mutual consent to proceed without a judge, simplifying a process that…
Pacific Islands
Chris de Freitas: Human interference real threat to Pacific atolls
The facts around rising sea levels are widely misunderstood or misinterpreted.
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Asia
At least 14 dead after five-story building collapses in India
A five-story building under construction collapsed in the southern Indian state of Goa , killing at least 14 workers and…
United States
Ford to unveil solar hybrid concept car at CES
Ford plans to unveil at this month's International CES gadget show a solar-powered concept car that offers the same performance…